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SEPTEMBER 26, 1861, 



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THOMAS DOGGETT, 

PASTOR OF THE CONGRjiftATIONALail CHURCH, OROVELAND. 



HAVERHILL: 

G. PROTHINGHAM, PRINTER 
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PASTOR OF THE CONGREGATIONALHt CHURCH, GROVELAND. 



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HAVERHILL: 

E. G. FROTHING HAM, PRINTER. 

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SERMON. 



Judges xix. 30, — "Aijd it was so, that all that saw 
IT SAID, There was no such deed done nor seen from 

the day THAT THE CHILDREN OP ISRAEL CAME UP OUT OP 
THE LAND OF EgTPT UNTO THIS DAY; CONSIDER OP IT, 
TAKE ADVICE, AND SPEAK YOUR MINDS." 

We are convened to-day by public authority. The Pres- 
ident of the United States, and the Governor of our own 
Commonwealth, have united in the recommendation and re- 
quest, that we should observe this day as a day of Prayer. 
They have but given voice to the general sentiment and desiro 
■of our people, who as a nation, feel in an unusual degree, the 
need and blessedness of the Divine favor. 

If we feel called upon to bow in supplication and penitence 
in time of private grief, much more shall we at time of wide 
spread and national sorrow. National calamity is a call to 
national humiliation. It needs no especial insight to see that 
as a people we are in the furnace of affliction ; that as a peo- 
ple we are passing through the valley of the shadow of death. 
Though want and famine, desolation and pestilence, are not 
in our homes and in our streets, yet the very principles, that 
are the soul and life blood of our national being ; that give 
value to houses, and lands, and life, are placed in jeopardy, 
and menaced with destruction. 

This is the meaning of the war now raging. This is the 
reason that so many hundred miles of our sea coast are per- 
petually watched by an armed fleet ; that so many millions of 



men, north and south, speaking tho same language, snd be- 
lieving in the same Bible, are cut off from all the intercourse 
of business and social life. This is the reason that the line»r 
once marked out by peaceful surveyors, with the instruments 
of civilization and science, are now made broad by the march 
and entrenchments of armies, and deep with so many new 
made human graves. This is the reason that so many thou- 
sands maintain a strict patrol around tlic capitol of our na- 
tion ; that so many tents gleam in the forest, and the drum 
and the fife re-eclio along the banks of the Potomac, of the 
Ohio, and of the Missouri. This is the reason that commerce 
furls its sails ; that enterprise sits down ; that peaceful men 
put on the trappings of the soldier j that all classes freely 
pour out their wealth at the call of the Government, and load 
themselves and tlicir posterity with a debt of millions. This 
is the reason that the press, the organ of literature and busi- 
ness devotes its columns to news from the war, to victories 
and defeats. This is the reason that the prayers of the clos- 
et, and the family, and the sanctuary arc heavy with a new 
burden, as they ascend to the Father of all, now addressed 
by a new name, the Lord op Hosts, the God of Battles. 
This is the reason that so many households all over our land^ 
pore over the daily news with such absorbing interest ; for 
in the five hundred thousand men in arms, centre the solici- 
tude and love of thirty miUions, who are the fathers, and moth- 
ers, and sisters, and brothers, and friends, of those who stand 
arrayed for mutual slaughter. 

The absorbing theme of the civilized world, is our present 
civil war. All can see that the asylum of liberty and free- 
dom for all the world, is assailed by tyranny and despotism. 
We are in a struggle for the life and death of principles. It 
is not a mere wrestle against flesh and blood, but against 
principalities and powers, against the rulers of the darkness 
of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. It 
is another form of that old conflict between light and dark- 
ness, good and evil, right and wrong, Christ and the devil, 
fought on a wider battlefield than has ever yet resounded with 



the noise of combat ; with sadder aspects than ever yet en- 
shrouded armies, meeting in deadly strife. Our foes are those 
of our own nation, of our own household. It is so ; and all 
that see it say, " There was no such thing done or seen, from 
the days that the children of Israel came up out of Egypt, un- 
to this day." And well may we consider of it, take advice 
and speak our minds. 

It is not a chance that hath happened unto us. There are 
deep and adequate causes for all the evils that we suffer, and 
all the evils that are to come. Nations as well as individu- 
als are under the control of one, who is great in counsel, 
mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of 
the sons of men, to give unto nations as well as to individuals 
according to their ways, and according to the fruit of their 
doings. When afflictions so terrible come upon a people, as 
now rest on us, we know that it is a visitation of punishment 
from the Most High. These are strokes of the rod of God. 
Why is it that this unparalleled spectacle is presented to tlio 
world ? Can any by considering and taking advice, give any 
deeper and truer answer, than by saying. It is the Lord, his 
Judgments are aljroad in the land. Misery follows sin. This 
wide spread woe follows a wide spread guilt. 

What are our sins and what is our guilt ? Let us consid- 
er these questions to-day, and speak out with boldness ; mak- 
ing charges with frankness ; making acknowledgements with 
reparation ; making confessions with humility ; devoutly and 
sincerely promising amendment. And may God hear the con- 
fessions of our nation, call back his judgment, and give us 
the sunshine of his favor, and a perpetual and righteous peace. 

It will not do for us at the north, to ascribe all the guilt 
for which we now are punished, to the citizens of the southern 
states. It will not do for us to-day, to measure guilt, and say 
which most deserves the divine inflictions, although it is very 
evident, from what states now the heaviest penalties are ex- 
acted. We are one nation ; the same blood runs in our veins 
and in a certaui degree the same sentiments have nourished 
and formed public opinion. Their party leaders have been 



oura, and ours liave been tlieirs. Wc all have said, " No 
North, No South." Wc have read tlic same party organs, and 
stood on the samo party platforms. North and south, wo 
have been Wliigs or Democrats. We have opposed or fa- 
vored the same candidates, without regard to their place of 
residence or place of birth. It has been the pride and boast 
of our statesmen that they belonged to the nation, not to a 
state ; that tliey were laboring for the good of the whole, not 
for the advancement of one section to the detriment of anoth- 
er. Wc have liad but one national life, and but one govern- 
ment, the expression of that life. For 

" All genuine government 
Is but the expression of a nation, good, 
Or less good, even as all society 
Howe'er unequal, monstrous, crazed or cursed, 
Is but the expression of men's single lives, 
The loud sum of the silent units." 

And now that such a disease has broken out with such viru- 
lence and frenzy, it is absurd to say that the virus has not 
been coursing through all the frame. Local weakness, local 
irritations, local injuries, or hereditary tendencies may deter- 
mine the spot where it shall first appear, but when the whole 
body is tlirown into the agony of dissolution, we know well 
that the lungs have been inhaling a pestilential air ; that the 
food that supported the system, has contributed to weaken 
and disarrange. We arc reaping, what we tJte American peo- 
2fle, have sown. God has given to us according to our ways, 
and according to the fruit of our doings. 

And first, we have been faithless to the idea of justice, both 
at home and abroad. 

At home, for nearly eighty-six years, we as a people,', have 
l)ecn willing, that millions of human beings in our ovni land, 
should hopelessly be deprived of their natural rights, while 
the voice of religion and the civilized world, has been pointing 
out our sin, and bidding us, now with authority, now with 
gentleness, now with scorn, render unto all that which was 
just and c(pial. The majority of the representatives of our 



nation, representing the sentiments and the wishes of the peo- 
ple, have done notliing for the removal of this guilt, in any of 
the ways of counsel, influence and advice, that were open to 
them. Whatever party has been dominant, the course haa 
been the same. Our Presidents, with hardly an exception^ 
have never given us a sign that they even knew of such injus- 
tice. Nor have they ever been known, either to use any per- 
sonal influence, or to propose any measures, so as to give 
these men possession of their rights as the children of God, 
and those for whom Christ died. So deep has been the de- 
termination to continue this gigantic injustice, that until with- 
in a few years, not a representative of our nation, could speak 
of the injustice of slavery, among his associates, but at his per- 
sonal peril. The men who expressed the opinions of the 
American people, would not hear or bear a word. Ministers 
of the gospel in all parts of our land, could not speak of our 
national faithlessness to the divine idea of justice, and adduce 
American slavery as an illustration, without oifending some' h 
of their hearers, who, if they did not leave the house|soon left 
their ministei^^etting an early example of secessioiy solely 
because they spoke of our national guilt, as they obeyed the 
divine command in part, showing the people their transgres- 
sions, and the house of Israel their sin, in not breaking every 
yoke and letting the oppressed go free ; — obeying in part, for 
they hardly dared to cry aloud, and lift up their voice like a 
trumpet, but spoke softly and tremblingly. 

These things show how resolved, we as a people have been, 
to continue in the maintenance of this wrong. We, as a peo- 
ple, have bought territory after territory, that this institution 
of injustice might expand itself. One of our last administra- 
tions, tried to purchase Cuba, for the farther propagation of 
slavery. It is notorious, that we, through our Representa- 
tives, have broken our solemn compacts, made in good faith 
for all time, simply to give a wider spread to this injustice. 
I might speak of Kansas, but enough has already been said 
to show that wo the American people, have been faithless to 
the divine idea of justice at home. 



Now let us look at our intercourse with foreign powers. 
If there ever was an unrighteous war, it was the one wc car- 
ried on against Mexico, who had offered us no insults and done 
us no injury. The majority of the nation upheld it ; every 
state sent its quota of troops, and paid its portion of the ex- 
pense. Almost every town and village exulted in our victo- 
ries. The whole country was eager, in their ascriptions of 
honor and praise, to our officers and our soldiers, who had in- 
gloriously triumphed. We gave them praise, as if might gave 
right — as if success was a full sanction to a measure conceiv- 
ed in iniquity, and brought forth in sin. It is no wonder, 
that so many of the officers, who took their first lessons in that 
school of demoralization and wrong, at the instigation of our 
government, should at last have shown their proficiency in 
guilt, by being the instigators and promoters of treason, rebel- 
lion, and civil war. As our Davis and Beauregard, drew their 
first swords at their country's command, in a cause of iniquity, 
it is not a matter of astonishment, that they draw them, now, 
at the bidding of the same cause of iniquity, against their 
country. We bade them be faithless to justice then, shall 
we not expect them to be faithless to justice now ? God 
gives us according to our ways. Our sins recoil. God is 
just. 

2d. We have been faithless to our ideas of Liberty. 

In 1776, we flung into the face of all the world, the motto 
that all men were created free and equal, with certain inalien- 
able rights, among which, were life, liberty, and the pursuit of 
happiness. We boasted that we were free from the shackles 
of old dynasties and governments, and that our creed was 
liberty and equality — that here was the home, the native air, 
and the unclouded sky, where the down-trodden of the old 
world could come and stand erect, and in native honor and 
God-given independence, recover their wasted vigor, and se- 
cure their manhood. That here there were no legal distinc- 
tions of classes — that men could move according to their affin- 
ities and their pleasure ; that none were shut out by birth, 
from any station or from any office. In short that all were 



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of the blood royal, and tliat each parent, as he looked upon 
his infant son, might say, — "Perhaps in that cradle lies a 
Prince of Wales, an heir apparent, a future sovereign of these 
broad dominions." 

Liberty for all is proclaimed as the great idea of our na- 
tion. But it is a falsehood. Liberty is partial, nowhere entire, 
The color of a man's cheek, and the quality of his hair, were 
to determine his position as a member of the inferior, or of 
the ruling class. And so it is now. We have sailed under 
false colors from the first. Our hypocrisy has been shame- 
less. We have said in exulting tones, heard around the globe, 
here, all men liave their natural rights allowed them, — here, govern- 
mait exists that they all nuiy have them, but in a whisper we have 
said, — "That is, all of the right tinge amd curV^ " Liberty for 
alT^^ut some cati have only the liberty of the yard, the liberty of 
the length of their chain, jfrovided they do not make too much noise 
and ask for more. * 

Such has been our allegiance to the first article of our na- 
tional creed. It is very true, as Mr. Choate said, that this 
has been but a " glittering generality," a rhetorical flourish. 
We know that liberty of person, liberty of speech, liberty of 
action, and almost liberty of thought has been refused to mil. 
lions. For years we Americans were unwilling that there 
should be liberty of speech in Congress. For years the lib- 
erty of the Press was trammeled, and a majority of our na- 
tion have willingly consented, that liberty of speech and press 
should be an impossibility over a great part of our laud ; while 
liberty of thought was allowed, only until it broke the still 
air with words. 

The Tract Society could not allow its publications to speak 
of all the sins that God had laid down, and to call heinous, 
all that He called heinous. Why could it not ? That society 
was only an organ, and the majority of its supporters would 
not have it. It only followed public sentiment and national 
opinion. It could not breathe of liberty to the captive. It 
must preach a mutilated gospel — good tidings up to a certain 
point— thus far and no farther. So wc have sinned in oui.- 



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faithlessness to the idea of liberty in its wide extent. It was 
not the south, nor the north. It was the south and the north, 
one people, one body, one nation. We have sinned, and for 
the sin of the inhabitants our land is made to mourn. 

3. This war is a punishment for our intense greediness of 
gain. The north and the south have been alike in this. The 
wealth of a few at the south, has been rolling up prodigiously, 
by their monopoly of slaves. The wealth of the many with 
us, has been increased at a wonderful rate, through our grow- 
ing commerce, agriculture and manufactures. The common 
cry has been, " give us more property and more money," and 
neither section have had the most righteous scruples about 
the means. If manufacturers could sell their articles at a 
profit, that was enough. They obtained all they wanted — 
money. The principle at bottom has been exactly the same. 
The slave owner, who had no thought but to make his stock 
of negroes most profitable, and many of our business men 
and manufacturers, could have changed places, and not chang- 
ed a controlling principle, or a single aim in life. They 
would only have changed the means. The gambling spirit of 
speculation has infested all. Some have speculated in cotton 
and sugar raising, and in negroes ; others in manufacturing 
and trading, in stocks, in railroads, in everything that would 
give a prospect of immediate gain. If any conscience was a 
little tender, it was bid to go to sleep, and let things alone. 
Wliat had morality to do with business, or dollars and cents, 
buying and selling. The Bible and the Ledger were two 
books. The four gospels did not teach book-keeping. 

This reckless spirit of intense selfishness, none can deny 
has spread throughout society. The whole nation has been 
honey-combed by it. Honest men are scarce, as you see, since 
when one has blamelessly passed through the ordeal of a long 
course of business, he is a marked man, and all the world 
hear him spoken of as honest, as if honesty was an exception. 
Witness our honest Ex-Governor Briggs, recently called 
to his reward. Witness the present chief magistrate of thia 
nation, who has passed the fiery trials of a legal and political 



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life, and almost incredible to state, has received from all men 
the surname (rf Honest man. This low standard of morality 
in business, has demoralized us, and has justly called down 
the judgments of a holy God, who delights in equity. The 
highest to the lowest have provoked him — the President as 
well as the most ignorant voter — the most refined and the 
most brutal, the merchant prince who deals with hundreds of 
thousands, and the smallest trafficker of our villages — the 
ma^jority have entered into the race for riches. They have 
sought wealth, not for the righteous purpose of having more 
power for good, more opportunities of personal culture ; not 
for procuring better advantages of education for their chil- 
dren ; not for the social and moral elevation of themselves, or 
of others, but for the sake of display, for the means of grati- 
fying vanity and the love of show ; and not to procure more 
of the real comforts of life, but more of the gilt and tinsel, 
of the glitter and parade ; in short, so as not to be behind 
any of tlieir own circle in ostentation and display. This 
worldliness, this useless vanity, this degrading rivalry for tlie 
means of show, or for the reputation of wealth, God has 
frowned upon, and now his frowns are succeeded by decisive 
chastisements. The means of display are taken away from 
many. Their injurious sources of profit are dried up, their 
useless occupations gone. Splendid fortunes, that excited the 
envy of thousands, are scattered to the winds. Thousands, 
who lived in idleness and luxury, are reduced to comparative 
want. Failures have followed failures, until we know not 
where they will end. So God rebukes this wide spread in- 
iquity of our nation. So fraud and covetousness at the south, 
check-mate covetousness and selfishness at the north. So 
God brings upon us all, the fruit of our own doings. The 
good must suffer with the bad, for we are all one body. 

Business stops, because it was done on wrong principles, 
and for wrong purposes. Millions must be sunk in war, be- 
cause it was unjustly acquired, or from immoral and selfish 
ends accumulated. Half a million of men must be supported 
by the rest of the nation until the war is ended. The wealth 



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Hoiiftht for self, must now go to the general good. Men must 
l)c,u;iii anew, with new aims, and with more moderate desires. 
Wealth must be acquired for righteous purposes, not for self- 
irih aggrandizement and sinful display. 

One portion of our nation has carried this spirit a little far- 
ther, and because of the supposed advantages it hoped to have 
in business and in power, because of the greater opportunities 
for ambition in office and display in State, has drawn the 
sword and proclaimed this war. They would have broader 
fields for cotton, and larger territories for larger gains, with 
space for tlic accumulation of more wealth, in order to con- 
sume it on their lusts. And if this opportunity for gain on a 
more gigantic scale could not be otherwise obtained, no in- 
icjuity wliich the invention of the blackest spii'it of the pit 
could instigate, is found too atrocious. So they lavish their 
selfish gains in the expenses of this nefarious rebellion, bring- 
ing on privation, poverty, and the deepest want. So God is 
punishing our greed of gold. 

Demoralized by their unholy methods of gain, the citizens of 
the south have through generations nurtured themselves up to 
be fit tools for traitors. Blinded, self-willed, and ignorant, 
they have rushed into rebellion. Carried on by the spirit of 
selfishness which has infatuated our people, they have gone on- 
ly farther in their folly, and like fools have made a mock at sin. 
God has left them to their blindness, and they rush on to the 
thick bosses of his buckler. 

This entire absorption in personal and pecuniary profit 
has made us all neglectful of our political duties. We at the 
north have asked of our Representatives, guarantees and 
j)ledges, that commerce should be protected, that a tariff should 
encourage manufactures, and that the material welfare of our 
section should be faithfully looked after. Nothing more and 
nothing higher have we cared for. Had they fluent tongues, 
and persuasive modes of speech, we were the better pleased. 
High moral character and fiir reaching wisdom, we did not 
demand. We were forgetful of the moral ends of government 
and of the grounds of true prosperity. Our brethren of the 



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south had tho eamo aims and wishes. Their exponents at 
Wasliinjj^ton labored for the same ends, and because they 
thouglit that their interests clashed with ours, at the word of 
their leaders, the chasm of secession yawns. Had we had a 
glimpse of the moral ends of government, of what gives sta- 
bility and true prosperity to a nation, we should not have 
thus neglected the character of the men who have been our 
law-makers, and the guides of our national policy. Had wo 
had an eye to our true interests, we should not now present 
this sight. Good men would have met good men in Congress. 
Public virtue would have stinmlatcd public virtue. Their mu- 
tual excellence would have brought out higher developments 
of good, both in character and action. A true christian pol- 
icy, not sectional but national, would have controlled our 
Union. But now selfish men of low aims, our representatives, 
have met each other, borrowed each other's vices, and return- 
ed with more corruption than they brought. No atmosphere 
has been fouler than the political. And all this because of 
our neglect. Therefore the land mourneth. 

4. We are suifering because that as a nation we have for- 
gotten God. Not that there are not multitudes of sincere dis- 
ciples of Christ in all parts of our country. Not that their 
lives are not redolent with saintly virtues ; but as a nation 
we have not had a christian character. What visitor at the 
seat of government, would ever have dreamed that we were a 
Ood fearing people ! The mention of it there would have 
excited uproarious laughter. When has our intercourse with 
nations given the impression that we believed in God, and in 
right and wrong, in heaven or in hell. The foreign powers 
that have seen our disregard of treaty stipulations, in respect 
to the prevention of the slave trade, could tell of our national 
morality ! It is seldom that a man with the fear of God be- 
fore his eyes, and his love in his heart, has represented us at 
Washington. If, as our President says in his Proclamation, 
the fear of the Lord is the bcgimiing of wisdom, most of our 
representatives have been far from beginning to be wise. A 
decidedly religious man, in most districts, could not possibl/ 



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have been elected to Congress. A disregard for the strict mo- 
rality of the Bible has been one of the prime requisites in or- 
der to be a politician, or to be eligible as a candidate for office. 
Men have not carried their religion into their politics, though 
they have often carried their politics into their religion. No 
means have been taken that our government should be of a 
high toned religious stamp. The wish has never been pub- 
licly entertained. Men who have entertained it and proclaim- 
ed it, have been ridiculed and denounced. Pure religion and 
undefiled before God and the Father, has not controlled us. 
Purity of life has not been demanded of our rulers, because 
purity of life has not been the aim of this great nation. Neith- 
er government, nor business, nor the pursuits of pleasure, 
throughout all the wide extent of our domains, have been car- 
ried on by men, a majority of whom endeavored to live in 
obedience to the command, " Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself." God's 
curse and punishment, is as widely extended as this our sin. 

I have spoken thus at length of our national sins. As we 
share in the guilt of them, so we share in the misery of them. 
Perhaps some of you will be disappointed that I have not 
said more upon the guilt of the slave owners and of the south, 
of this double distilled wickedness of Davis and Floyd, and 
their compeers,* which has no parallel in history 7- finding 
its parallel only where the arch fiend seduced from their 
allegiance the angels of glory,* of traitors animated by the 
spirit of Satanic ambition, which rather reign in hell than 
serve in heaven. But on this day so solemnly set apart, in 
recognition of the fearful visitation of God, felt and seen in 
the factious and civil war that now afflicts us, — set apart for 
humiliation before Him, and for prayer for indulgence and 
mercy, it is befitting us rather to bring up in sorrowful remem- 
brance our own faults and crimes, both as a nation, and as in- 
dividuals. This I have faintly and imperfectly done. I have 
not dwelt on our own uncharitableness, in attacking this in- 
trenched system of iniquity, nor on the fiendish animosity 
which has defended it. Wc ought to have had less bitterness 



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and more love, from the first to the last, and tlicy, more pa- 
tience and more brotherly kindness, but it is all over now. 
The Rubicon has been passed. The time for us at the north 
to accuse each other is gone. One alternative only is offered, 
which we, guided by the good spirit of God have accepted. 
As without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins 
for the race, so it seems that without the shedding of blood, 
our government cannot be upheld, and liberty insured. We 
have heard the cry, " the Philistines be upon thee Samson," and 
rousing ourselves from our Delilah sleep, we have burst the 
withs and cords tliat have been tied around us, and finding 
that the locks of our strength are yet unshorn, by the grace 
of God we are ready for the fight. Confessing our national 
sin, of faithlessness to the divine principle of justice, it re- 
mains for us to' show the sincerity of our repentance, by 
solemnly purposing, in the strength of God, never to rest sat- 
isfied, nor to cease our labors in public and private, with the 
tongue, with the purse, with the vote, until justice in our treat- 
ment of blacks and whites, at home and abroad, shall be the 
fixed and unchangeable rule of national action. Confessing 
our general faithlessness to the idea of liberty, it rests with us 
to show the reality of our repentance by pledging our lives, 
our fortunes and our sacred honors, to give reality to the 
truths of our national creed; by securing to all of our citizens 
of whatever hue, their inalienable rights as a perpetual pos- 
session. Confessing our inordinate selfishness and blind wor- 
ship of wealth, as individuals and as a nation, let us break 
away from our sins, and henceforth live for higher purposes 
and nobler aims. Let us show the sincerity of our penitence 
by a wise thoughtfulness for our nation's future, for her per- 
manent prosperity and her lasting glory. Let our rulers be 
noble men, with God's regal stamp upon their souls. Let us 
rejoice to have them lead us higher and higher in the path of 
national ascendancy. Let us seek for property for its noble 
uses. Let us refer to the highest standard in all our business, 
and brand with the most ineffable disgrace, those who will not 
live in accordance with it. Let us demand high morality from 



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our citizen g and public servants. Let us set character above 
possessions, and value true wisdom above rubies. Confessing 
that as individuals and as a nation, we have not lived in the 
fear of God, let us show the truth of our repentance, by tak- 
ing our Christianity into politics ; by making it impossible for 
a man devoid of principle, to hold an office of honor and 
responsibility, by purging our political atmosphere, by taking 
pride in the integrity and virtue of our rulers. A God fear- 
ing man now leads our armies ; let God fearing men stand 
always at the helm of our ship of state, recognizing the God 
of nations, and ruling in His fear. 

This is a repentance not to be repented of. Standing thus 
as a nation in true humility before Him, God will bless us, and 
that right early. Law, order, peace will come to us again, 
never to depart. When we are under his guidance, we shall 
march on victorious. When the folds of our flag float beneath 
the cross, we shall move forward in triumph. There now it 
waves. Christ is our leader. Let the nation hear that lead- 
er's voice, and ever henceforth, Forward March ! 






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